Excellent question. I do not have the answer but will offer a suggestion to be checked. I like to watch the TV History Channel and have noticed that they often have information about weather conditions at least for major events. Perhaps they could offer some leads to follow. Clark At 08:26 AM 10/12/2003, you wrote: >I am sending this out to a couple of lists in the hopes of gaining more >resources to answer the question below poised to me by Paula. My response >is at >the end of her letter. After I get responses, I will post a follow up to >these >lists with the compiled answers so that by sharing we can overcome. > >Best of wishes, > >Billy > >"Where can information about weather history be found? >I've been researching and writing my family history for nearly 30 years. I >thought I could spice it up a bit with some weather trivia, but it >certainly is >hard to find! >It has also made me realize that history books do not mention the weather, >unless you count the Winter at Valley Forge, for example...And yet the >weather >affects our lives and can be dramatic. >I've searched everywhere, all over the Internet, corresponded with NOAA >people, even asked local weather reporters for help and still I come up >with nada. >I am aware that official weather records are probably not even a century old, >but surely someone has already researched and gathered together dates and >descriptions of historical weather events. I am not interested in >technical or >scientific data, just stories or brief descriptions and maps, if any. I am >also not looking for a particular storm on a particular date. If I were, I >suppose I could find newspaper extracts helpful, but without dates, that is >impossible." >MY RESPONSE: >You know, that is a good question. It has passed through my mind a time or >two but I had not done any research into it. Off the top of my head, old >letters (especially in the military sense), naval records if for areas >close to the >ocean, diaries of persons in the immediate area, and newspapers still remain >your best bet. One on-line resource you need to look into, if you >haven't, is >the Brooklyn Eagle archives covering 1841 - 1902. That newspaper was in New >York but did print stories from around the country and world. That URL is: > >http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#1 When you have a new email address please UNSUBSCRIBE from the >old BEFORE you lose it; and SUBCRIBE from the NEW address as soon >as you get access to it. If you fail to do this please send the >old and new address to: swvaroot7@aol.com and the Mailing List name >-sysop